Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01

ther than il would be possible to do from
any country where rains prevail during the
growing season. We can ship our green
fruit to Chicago, taking from five 10 seven
days, and it will then keep longes than the
Illinois-grown fruit o. other picked near by
and put onto the market fresh. This is
due solely to the dry climate in which we
grow. 1t will thus be seen that OR coun-
try possesses not only
PRODUCING ADVANTAGES,
But also peculiar advantages for drying
or marketing in green state. But the
often repeated question arises; Z" Is there
not danger of over-prGduction ?" This
same inquiry has been asked thousands Of
times in all fruit-growing countries.
Centuries ago the cry went up in Florence,
Italy, Spain, Portugal, and all those grape,
olive and fig countries; even IN the favored
fg-growing belts of Smyrna and Dalmatia,
the travellers attention was called to the
vast fig plantations, and the usual
"croaker" question propounded, Where,
0, where, viii a market be found for all
these fruitsP The same solemn land
supposedly yital) question was raised all
over the vast fruit-growing districts Of the
old world, and later in the fruit-growing
districts of the Eastern States, as to
fruits there grown. The orange groves of
Florida twenty-five years ago we're sup
posed to be adequate to supply all the de-
mands of North America and still have a
surplus that must rot in the orchard
Later still, but eight years ago, q friend
whom met on his way from Los Angeles
to the East, thoroughly alarmed for the
future of the southern counties, declared
that the people of that region had gone
mad on the grape and orange question,
and, to use his own words, he "was
determined to get away before the crash
came" Said he; "The whole popula-
ton viii bankrupt themselves in ten
years" He had gathered statistics from
the Assessors books and from other sources,
which showed that there was at that
time-as I remember him. 000, 900
orange trees planted in the orchards of
the four southern counties Of the State,
and grapeyines in proportion. He firmly
believed that in eight or ten years from
that date it would be impossible to market
tenth part Of the products Of the
orchards and vineyards then planted.
0rcherding has increased in acreage (espe-
cially in the United States within the
past half century to such an extent that
the nurserymen's names, which could fifty
years ago all have been printed on one
small sheet, now requires
A LARGE VOLUME
To catalogue There are, indeed, many
thousands of them. But, notwithstanding
all this, there is a better market and more
remunerative prices for the products of
the tree and vine, both in Europe and
America, than there were fifty years ago.
Take for example the articles of wine and
olive oil the supply is 80 short Of the de-
nand that adulteration is resorted to to
make up the deficit Hogs lard, cotton
seed oil and stale butter are bought
up by shrewd Frenchmen, shipped to
France, refined, and small per cent.
of pure olive oil added, and then
shipped back here and sold in
California as olive oil. Similar adult
erations are practiced in wines and
brandies. What else than a large de-
mand and small supply could warrant